CSCL needs to promote the inter-animation of complementary quantitative and qualitative perspectives rather than converge on a single ideal method.¶
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q2 i? The editorial's own synthesis of the issue's methodology articles (a quantitative rating-scheme paper, an SNA-plus-content-analysis paper, and a qualitative case-study paper) concludes that complementary perspectives should inter-animate rather than one method dominate. → Gerry Stahl & Friedrich Hesse 2007
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Gerry Stahl & Friedrich Hesse 2007¶
Gerry Stahl & Friedrich Hesse. (2007). Welcome to the future: ijCSCL volume 2. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-007-9010-8
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The editorial's interpretive conclusion (type e) drawn from three methodology articles it reviews: Meier, Spada and Rummel's nine-dimension rating scheme, De Laat and colleagues' combined SNA and content analysis, and Rourke and Kanuka's naturalistic-paradigm case study. The editorial states this as its own implication, not a tested result.
"Perhaps the implication of the papers in this issue is that CSCL needs to promote the inter-animation of complementary quantitative and qualitative perspectives rather than hoping to converge on a single ideal method."
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CSCL needs to promote the inter-animation of complementary quantitative and qualitative perspectives rather than converge on a single ideal method. |
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CSCL needs to promote the inter-animation of complementary quantitative and qualitative perspectives rather than converge on a single ideal method. |
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2007 |
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